Your Girl and Mine: A Woman Suffrage Play (1914)

Genre

silent film

Country

United States

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A 1914 silent film that advocates for women's right to vote. It was sponsored by a suffrage organization and shows a melodramatic story alongside real footage of a suffragist leader.

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What happens

Your Girl and Mine is a 1914 film promoting woman's suffrage. It was sponsored by Ruth Hanna McCormick as well as the National American Woman Suffrage Association NAWSA. It was produced by William Selig and directed by Giles R. Warren. Gilson Willets wrote the script. Motography covered the film. The movie was shot in Chicago, Illinois. On October 14, 1914, the film premiered at the Auditorium Theatre, Chicago. McCormick wrote about the film for the Richmond Times-Dispatch stating the "melodramatic photoplay will prove as effective in gaining Votes for Women as Uncle Tom's Cabin was in the abolition of slavery." The film featured Katharine Kaelred, Olive Wyndham, and Grace Darmond. Also appearing was Anna Howard Shaw addressing a suffrage convention. The complete cast had more than 400 members. It was shown at variety of theaters nationwide over a two-year period. McCormick and the NAWSA organized to coordinate advertising and ticket sales. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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